New
Order – Complete Music (Mute)
CD
/ DL
Out
now
8.5
/ 10
Legendary
Mancunians release extended mix album.
Last
year’s Music Complete marked a triumphal return for Manchester’s
finest. Hailed as their best album for
over a quarter of a century, their first for over two years was a critical and
commercial victory. Such was its success
that the remix album contained within the special edition vinyl has now been
released in its own right by popular demand.
The
band that needs very little introduction are back to their finest, possibly the
best they have ever sounded. The now
polished sound of the band, no doubt influenced by the work technique (sorry)
of Mute suits them perfectly. The
characteristic bass and synth sounds are still there and its unmistakably New
Order.
Complete
Music is billed as extended mixes rather than remixes, and the result is ten
tracks on cd for the first time with the addition of Singularity which appeared
on the single release package. Whether
it be the Giorgio Moroder bass throb of Plastic or the memory of True Faith in
Academic, each track glows in its own glory.
Playing
like a Greatest Hits package, Complete Music goes one step further than its
master and adds further depth and insight to an already great album. Six and a half glorious minutes of drawling Iggy
Pop on Stray Dog epitomise a group having the time of their lives with heroes
guesting on their own compositions.
What
maybe makes Complete Music so special is that it brings together echoes of New
Order past and present. Their
distinctively recognisable sound with the typical remix quality hits fine form
on Nothing But A Fool which is classic fodder, whereas The Game sounds as
though it is as it was originally recorded, and there is perhaps the strength
of this album. No track sounds like a
‘remix’, each and every one sounds as though it was recorded as a lengthy
version then edited for their 2015 album.
Complete
Music is a special album from a special band making some of the finest
dance/rock of their careers.
Links
Mute Records
New Order website
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New Order on Facebook
Published on Louder Than War 19/05/16 - here
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